Cluster Analysis to Assess the Quality of Educational Conditions in Educational Institutions

The article deals with the cluster approach to the quality of education and training conditions in educational organizations. The proposed more precise definition of the "quality of conditions" that results from the spiral development process enriches the framework of concepts in the researched area. The authors assume that clustering of educational organizations should be performed using quality parameters to assess educational environment. A methodology of a multi-dimensional approach to describing educational organizations is presented in terms of comparative analysis. The criteria that characterize the quality of educational conditions are determined. The results of the clustering of state educational organizations in Leningrad Region providing adaptive learning programmes are estimated. Practical application of the cluster approach helped in identifying a group of organizations (clusters) that were offered a particular set of measures to maintain and create conditions for the development of educational environment.